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Snow Pack

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… the 2nd floor deck off the fiber room, packed with snow up to the railing … no blowing or drifting … just nature-packed snow

… paddock fencing and shelters … Samson has a path made to the far shelter … his dog house has disappeared

… about one-third of the way up, you can just barely see the top of the posts of our 42-inch tall paddock fencing going down the hill

… a little drifting at the top of the hill against the perimeter fencing

… temperatures moving into the upper 30’s and low 40’s will feel like spring for the next 10 days … hoping the snow does not melt too fast and into a sloppy mess … it has been a difficult winter already … there’s a looong way to go

Snow Angels

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The weekend involved many snow angels (as our Mom likes to call them). It involved many hours of snow-blowing, snow shoveling, battery charging, more shoveling, towing, more snow-blowing. more shoveling, and so on, and so on. Many, many thanks to Bill and Roger, Terry and Jonathan!!
This also involved the help of dogs and cats… we won’t go there…

The Weekend

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A challenging weekend…

— battled wind (20 to 30 mph) and snow (honestly have lost track of how many inches) to feed and tend the flock
— windchills of -12 to -17 degrees turned water to slush in a matter of minutes; fumbled around to get insulated sleeves on the rabbits’ waterers but then the little ball bearings in the tubes froze
— blowing snow closed the church road several times, but the Ranger once again proved to be a determined drift buster, and we were able to make it over to the other pasture with hay for Saul’s breeding group
— celebrated every single time the sun weakly peeked through the snow-laden clouds
— managed to trudge back to the fiber room and get a couple more lambs’ fleeces skirted and finished another piece of contract knitting {happy dance}
and last but most definitely not least…
— discovered that in an emergency, pink insulated underwear makes an excellent winter face mask!

Plowing Through

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We had a beautiful snowfall over the weekend, very close to 2 feet, and of course drifts much higher. Luckily the wind died down on Sunday. We were a little worried about the spring lambs getting around, but the snow was pretty dry and fluffy and not too difficult to get around in. Everyone pretty much just plowed right through it.

That said, thank goodness for the ability to forget fairly quickly just how exhausting it is to haul hay and water around in 2 feet of snow. Hopefully we won’t have another big snow before we break up the breeding groups. Then everyone will be closer to the barn.
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It has been a very busy week! Snow last Saturday, then wind and bitter cold. Lots of hauling hay and water, spinning and knitting going on. We’ve had these photos sitting in draft mode all week long. Soooo, we’ll just share these photos from last weekend and hope for more opportunities to share our farm news during the coming week.